REVIEW: BEST OF THE NET,  Seth Godin, ed.    IDG Books,  1995

Here's another guidebook to the Internet's treasures which should keep
any serious Internaut occupied for weeks!  Editor Godin posted a request
for nominations where he requested readers to send in their suggestions
for the "best stuff on the Net - everything from newsgroups to gopher and
WWW sites.....tell us the best games you've played, great mailing lists
you've joined..."  It only took a handful of postings and the results are
contained in this interesting volume.

As Seth Godin stated in his posting: "....this isn't intended to be a
comprehensive listing of everything available on the Net.  It's just the
best stuff according to the people who are actually using the Internet,
instead of just writing about it."

This book is the result.  Subjects range from Acronyms to Zines and 
everything in between, such as Baseball, Beavis and Butt-head, CIA, Hackers,
Crime, Disney, Drugs, Elvis, Encryption, Flames, IRC, Letterman, Limbaugh,
M*A*S*H, Military, MUDs, Pizza, Prozac, Monty Python, Recipes,Sex, Shareware,
The Simpsons, The Terrorist Handbook, Viruses and a whole lot more. 

The book is well presented - you can read through it from beginning to end
or just pick it up and go to any particular topic of your choice.  BEST
OF THE NET is loaded with photographs, illustrations and sidebars that
make it an entertaining read in short segments while you're sitting in
front of your terminal looking for something to amuse and entertain yourself.
This is definitely a great book to keep on your desk to alleviate momentary
boredom.


%T      BEst of the Net
%A      Seth Godin, editor
%I      IDG Books
%C      Foster City California
%D      1995
%O      $22.99
%G      ISBN: 1-56884-313-5 
%P      430 pp, paperbound
%K      Internet, computer networks,


(C) 1995
Michael Crestohl
Nahant Massachusetts  USA
mc@shore.net

DISCLAIMER:  I have no interest, financial or otherwise, in the success or 
failure of the book or materials reviewed herewith, nor have I received any 
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All opinions expressed are strictly my own.

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